Google Earth wasn't around until about 2005, but with the power of archival satellite footage, Google's whipped up the most comprehensive timelapse known to man, covering the past 20 years of Earth. The ultimate, beautiful conclusion of this little project? Dope GIFs.

A joint effort between Google, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME, the new Timelapse project was born out of a collection of 2,068,467 images—909 terabytes of data—that span the entire world and date back to 1984. Google took the cream of that crop, and stitched them together into enormous, yearly, 1.78 terapixel images to make a truly global timelapse.